Cutting torch



Mayrl?, 1938. G. WALKER Y l CUTTING TORCH Filed Jn. 2 1, 193s ,LA ZIy/ENTOR l fJf-Mmm .[0 5 ZZ Il Patented vMay 17, 1938 l CUTTING TORCH George L. Walker, Jersey City, N. J., assigner to Air Reduction Company, Incorporated, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application January 2l, 1936, Serial No. 60,057 2 ordm.. (oi. 15s-27.4)

of thekind used for cutting metal.

The object of the invention is to provide a construction which is advantageous mechanically, and which insures the delivery of a well formed cutting oxygen stream. The torch of this in- .vention has provisions in the torch proper for conducting two separate oxygen flows and for combining these flows into one stream in such manner that the velocity across the stream delivered from the cutting orifice is equalized.

In the accompanying drawing forming part hereof: e

Fig. 1 is a View, principally in longitudinal secl tion, through a torch constituting a preferred embodiment of the invention,.the section being taken onthe line I-l of Fig. 2, and portions ci This invention relates to torches or blowpipes the torch intermediate the ends being broken out;

Fig. 2 is a similar view, the section of which is taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is arear end elevation.

The cutting torch illustrated in these views for the purpose ofshowing a concrete embodiment of the invention has a rear end block 2, a front end block or head 3, a tip 4, tubes 5, 6, and 'H cons -necting the blocks'2 and 3, and a casing 6 applied to the `blocks and surrounding the tubes. .The rear end block has nipples 9, lil, and vIl to receive hoses conducting to the torch oxygen for cutting, oxygen for preheating mixture, and fuel gas for the preheating mixture. This is, therefore, a three-hose torch, but the invention is equally applicable to two-hose torches, in which, asis well known, a single entering stream of oxygen is divided inside the torch into two l streams, one for cutting and onefor preheating. In the torch shown, the connection 9 is for cutting oxygen, the connection I0 is for preheating oxygen and the connection il is for fuel. gas.

The oxygen from the connection lli and the acetylene from the 'connection Il pass through suitable channels in the rear end block 2 to a ysuitable mixer housed in the portion I2 of. the

` rear encl block, which mixer may be removable through an opening closed by a back cap I3. The nature of such mixers is so well known that it is unnecessary to illustrate a specic mixer construction. The preheating mixture, ows from the mixer to and through the tube 5 to a channel I4, or to a pair 'of such channels, in the head bloei: I, from which channel or channels the mixture is distributed by way' of a recess I5 to the preheating passages I6 ofthe tip 4. No novelty is claimed in respect 'to the various preheating provisions of the torch. For simplicity, valves to control the respective preheating gasesare not shown.

The two tubes 6 and l are cutting oxygen conduits. Cutting oxygen passes through a channel I'l in the rear end block to a valve chamber I6, I and thence, when the valve element I9 is unseated, to two divergent channels 20 and 2| which deliver two streams of cutting oxygen to the rear ends of the tubes 6 and 1.

In the head block 3 two dead-end passages 22 l0 and 23, or other suitable recesses, receive the cutting oxygen streams fromVv the forward ends of the tubes 6 and 1, and the streams are combined in a central longitudinal passage 24 which leads the cutting oxygen to the rear end of the cutting l5 oxygen passage 25 of the tip. The passages 22 and 23 are closed at their front ends, and the passage24 is closed at its rear end. 'Ihe com-V munication between the two passages 22 and 23 and the central passage 24 is established bya go .cross-drilling in the head, this crossf-drilling forming ports 26 and 21.

The function of this construction is to provide opposing oxygen ilows tending to eliminate irregularities in the cutting oxygen stream cong5 ducted through the passages 24 and 26 to the terminal cutting jet oriiice, the irregularities thus eliminated or reduced being such as would tend to produce a wave condition or a hugging of the oxygen stream to one wall o! the oriiice. When 30 such conditions exist the quality and eillciency of the cutting operation are impaired, whereas this invention insures that there will be substantially equal velocity across the cutting oxygen stream,

or to put it in another way, that the velocities g5 of different portions of the stream, even though not truly uniform, `will be of substantially symmetrical distribution.

.The provision of two ports, such as the ports 26 and 21, directly opposed to each other and 'at 40 right angles to the lpassage 24, is eiiective for .thepurpose in view, and these ports are easy to 'make by cross-drilling. However, the number of the ports, and the precise 4angular relation may be varied, `provided the disposition is symmetrical 45 and such that the separate streams are introduced abruptly.

I claim:

1. A cutting torch having therein a block, and

.two tubes to conduct separate cutting oxygen so streams thereto. said block having two dead-end passages in continuation with said tubes, a central longitudinal passage, closed at its rear end, to conduct the cutting Aoxygen onward toward a Jet orifice, and cross ports placing said two dead- 55 end passages in communication with said central longitudinal passage.

2. A cuttingtorch comprising a head block ,adapted to receive a cutting tip, and two tubes to conduct separate cutting oxygen streams to saidvhead block, said head block being formed with a central longitudinal passage to conduct the cutting oxygen to the tip, this passage bel ing closed .at the rear end, two longitudinal pasof the' axis of said central'passage, these approach passages beingciosed at their front ends and connected at their rear ends with said tubes, and opposed ports connecting said approach passages with said central passage to combine the two cutting-oxygenows into one stream so that the velocity across the cutting stream delivered from the torch is substantially equalized.

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